Process Control

1) Software/Simulation
2) Course Syllabi
3) Course notes
4) Process Systems Research Consortia
5) Optimization websites
6) Academic Research in Process Systems Engineering
7) Process Control TextBooks

Software/Simulation

  • Interactive On-line Optimization
    An automated system that adjusts the operation of a plant based on product scheduling and production control to maximize profit and minimize emissions.
  • Nonlinear Model Database
    A collaborative environment where chemical process models can be documented and shared. The database consists of about 20 nonlinear models that include chemical reactors, binary distillation columns, and simple mechanical systems.
  • Online PID Process Control Tuner
    Dr. T.F. Edgar (University of Texas) and Eric Dean, Ricardo Dunia (National Instruments)
    This is an interactive PID faceplate that generates open- and closed-loop responses for a given transfer function model and control tuning parameters selected by the user.
  • Control Station Laboratory
    Research, Training and Technology Transfer in Automatic Process Control – Prof. Doug Cooper,University of Connecticut.
  • Mathtools.net
    The technical computing portal for all scientific and engineering needs.
  • Signals Systems Control
    John Hopkins University provides a collection of Java applets that provide interaction visualization for basic concepts in signals, systems, and control. Topics include convolution, Fourier Series, sampling, system properties, and Bode diagram analysis of control systems.
  • MultiSimplex 2.0
    MultiSimplex is an experimental design software for optimization step-by-step. Product quality, process efficiency and performance of analytical instruments are optimized by sequential design of experiments.
  • Process Control Modules Homepage
    A collection of dyanmic process and control simulations which run in Matlab and Simulink, Frank Doyle,University of Delaware.


Course Syllabi


Course Notes

  • Virtual Control Book
    The CACHE Virtual Process Control Book provides information on a variety of topics of interest to an undergraduate and/or graduate course on process dynamics and control.
  • Automatic Process Control
    Course notes and PowerPoint slides for the book, Process Dynamics and Control by D. E. Seborg, T. F. Edgar and D. A. Mellichamp. Also, check this course under CACHE University.
  • Process Control course material from McMaster University
    Has comprehensive undergraduate Process Control course material alongwith excercises. Recommended book – Marlin, T., Process Control: Designing Processes and Control Systems for Dynamic Performance, McGraw Hill, New York, 1995.
  • Statistical Quality and Process Control
    Illinois Institute of Technology
    Course Objectives: Introduce the probability concepts and statistical fundamentals necessary for developing statistical quality control techniques and tools. Develop statistical process and quality control methods for a single variable, for processes with time dependent data, and for multivariable processes. Discuss interface …more>>


Optimization Websites

  • Chemical Complex Analysis System
    Used to demonstrate optimization of a chemical complex. The System incorporates economic, environmental and sustainable costs and solves a MINLP for the best configuration of plants.
  • Research in the MCS Division at Argonne National Laboratory
    Aims at increasing intellectual and technical leadership in the computing sciences. Has descriptions of and links to computing resources, including scalable parallel supercomputers, virtual reality and multimedia environments, and a Distributed Systems Laboratory.
  • Global Optimization
    A comprehensive archive of online information on (non-commercial) global optimization, and somewhat less comprehensive on local optimization, collected by Arnold Neumaier of the Computational Mathematics group at the University of Vienna, Austria.
  • Decision Tree for Optimization Software
    Has solutions to optimization problems, collection of test results and performance tests, example files ready to use with existing software, softwares which helps formulating an optimization problem or simplifying its solution, and many other helpful materials for optimization.
  • Handbook of Test Problems in Local and Global Optimization
    This web site is intended to be a supplement to the Handbook of Test Problems in Local and Global Optimization published by Kluwer Academic Publishers. The principal objective of this book is to present a collection of challenging test problems arising in literature studies and a wide spectrum of applications
  • Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory
    IlliGAL is a part of the General Engineering Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. At IlliGAL, they study nature’s search algorithm of choice, genetics and evolution, as a practical approach to solving difficult problems on a computer.
  • MINOPT
    A Modeling Language and Algorithmic Framework for Linear, Mixed-Integer, Nonlinear, Dynamic, and Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Optimization. MINOPT is a comprehensive, powerful, and flexible package for the solution of various types of optimization problems.
  • Linear Programming FAQ
    Optimization Technology Center of Northwestern University and Argonne National Laboratory
  • Michael Trick’s Operations Research Page
    The site has pointers to all aspects of operations research like computer programs, conferences, journals, newsgroups and e-mail lists, courses, research groups, job information and many other.


Process Systems Research Consortia

  • Chemical Process Modeling & Control Research Center, Lehigh Uniersity
    The Center aims to educate a special group of M.S. and Ph.D. graduates and to develop advanced technologies in process modeling, monitoring and controller design that enable industries to reduce process and product variability, improve process productivity and operability and enhance product quality.
  • Arizona State Control Systems Engineering Laboratory
    The Lab is committed to broadly-applicable research in the areas of system identification and advanced process control. The goal of the research program is to develop fundamentally-oriented identification and control methodologies that ultimately improve the efficiency, profitability, safety and environmental compliance of process systems.
  • Center for Process Analytical Chemistry, Washington University
    The objective of the Center for Process Analytical Chemistry (CPAC) is to develop real-time measurement and relevant data handling techniques. Through its consortium of industrial sponsors and several national laboratories and government agencies, CPAC addresses challenges in monitoring production processes for effective modeling and control.
  • Texas – Wisconsin Modeling & Control Consortium (TWMCC)
    A consortium for carrying out joint industry-academic research. It emphasises on Control System Monitoring and Diagnosis, Dynamic Modeling of Chemical Processes, Nonlinear Model-Predictive Control, Materials Processing
  • Computer Aided Process Engineering Center
    Department of Chemical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark.
    CAPEC is committed to research work and educational activities. Its research objectives include Development of Computer Aided Systems for Process Simulation, Design, Analysis and Control/Operation for Chemical, Petrochemical, Pharmaceutical and Biochemical Industries.
  • Sustainable Process Development, Loughborough University
    The mission of the group is to establish methods for use in product and production plant development and design, which consider all stages in production and use, and that result in plants and product(s) that are demonstrably sustainable and of benefit, or at least not harmful in terms of safety, health and environmental impact, to all that they impinge upon.


Academic Research in Process Systems Engineering

  • spectroscopyNOW.com
    A new online resource serving the spectroscopy community. A free access portal that fulfils the information needs of spectroscopists.


Process Control Textbooks

  • B.W. Bequette, Process Control: Modeling, Design, and Simulation, Prentice-Hall (2003).
  • P.C. Chau, Process Control: A First Course With MATLAB, Cambridge Publishers (2002).
  • D.R. Coughanowr, Process Systems Analysis and Control, McGraw-Hill (1991).
  • M.L. Luyben and W.L. Luyben, Essentials of Process Control, McGraw-Hill (1997).
  • T.E. Marlin, Process Control: Designing Processes and Control Systems for Dynamic Performance, McGraw-Hill (2000).
  • B.A. Ogunnaike and W.H. Ray, Process Dynamics, Modelling and Control, Oxford University Press (1994).
  • B. Riggs, Chemical Process Control, 2 nd ed., Ferret Publishing (2001).
  • J.A. Romagnoli and A. Palazoglu, Introduction to Process Control, Taylor and Francis (2006).
  • D.E. Seborg, T.F. Edgar and D.A. Mellichamp, Process Dynamics and Control, 2 nd ed., Wiley (2004).
  • C.A. Smith and A.B. Corripio, Principles and Practice of Automatic Process Control, 3 rd ed., Wiley (2005).
  • W.Y. Srvcek, D.P. Mahoney, and B.R. Young, A Real-Time Approach to Process Control, Wiley (2000).
  • G. Stephanopoulos, Chemical Process Control, Prentice-Hall (1984).